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    Challenges→The regress argument is not the best argument for the existence of foundational justification.

    It is not established that all alternatives eliminated by the regress argument are genuinely untenable.

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    Some don’t find the regress argument to be the best argument for the existence of foundational justification; as with any argument by elimination, it depends on whether the alternatives eliminated really are untenable. Pryor (2013b), for example, claims that the best argument comes from considering examples. I believe that I feel tired, that I have a headache, that I intend to get a glass of water, that black is not white; and in each case, it doesn’t seem that my justification is mediated by an

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